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ROLLING REPORTER The American Legion Magazine, a leader among Eight-time world-champion logroller and Iraq war veteran J.R. Salzman is national general-interest publications, is covering this year’s Warrior Games for The American Legion’s Burn Pit blog. published monthly by The American Legion for Wounded, ill and injured servicemembers are set to compete in Colorado its 2.5 million members. These wartime veterans, working through 14,000 community- Springs, Colo., April 30 to May 3. In 2006, while serving with the Minnesota level posts, dedicate themselves to God and National Guard in Iraq, Salzman lost his arm in an IED attack. He returned to Country and traditional American values; strong dominate his sport even as he adjusted to his new prosthetic limb. Andrew Owens national security; adequate and compassionate care for veterans, their widows and orphans; Salzman’s “Lumberjack in a Desert” blog: www.jrsalzman.com community service; and the wholesome Read an interview with Salzman: www.legion.org/magazine development of our nation’s youth.

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MAY 2012 | THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE 5 number of residents was down When politicians talk about Rating upgrades for vets by more than 100. Why not fi ll it trillion-dollar debt, they don’t The article by Tom Philpott with homeless vets? They would bother to break the fi gures (Veterans Update, March) really have a home, a possible job, and down. A person born today with grabbed my attention. I’m in a health care at its clinic. There is a life expectancy of 100 years PTS group of about 30 Vietnam no excuse for a veteran freezing will have to spend more than War veterans, and over half of us in the streets, as long as there $27 million every single day to are currently trying to upgrade are warm rooms open in govern- reach $1 trillion in his lifetime. our disabililties. We are ment buildings. At present, no politician is held routinely turned down, then – Steve Provo, Remington, Ind. responsible for spending. What allowed to appeal the decision. we need is an amendment that We are given a year to round up Balanced budget amendment will give the president line-item proof from our medical records Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.’s pontifi - veto authority. This was tried (if they can be found), cating about reducing debt is once by passing a law, but the statements from civilian medical without substance if signifi cant Supreme Court said it was personnel (if they’re still alive), debt reduction is not immedi- unconstitutional. An amendment and civilian medical records (if ately addressed (Big Issues, ratifi ed by three fourths of the they still exist). Once you submit March). Alas, though, he is states would be constitutional. your appeal to VA, it can take constrained from talking about Any president who did not veto one to three years to meet with a this because of his politics. add-on bills and any other board. This upgrade program Instead, he spews a plethora of excessive spending could be needs to be taught to new red herrings: alleged gender, voted out next election. veterans before they are generation and infrastructure – Martin D. Beatty, Delmar, Md. discharged or retire. gaps. These have nothing to do – Roger M. Pryor, Hillsboro, Mo. with balancing the budget. Rep. Bob Goodlatte says a Jackson also claims that balanced budget amendment is ‘Fair Faces of Courage’ balancing the budget will needed. I strongly disagree. We As a proud veteran of the U.S. negatively impact poor and need a balanced budget. Army Medical Corps, I want to working-class families. He seems Nowhere does Goodlatte thank you for printing the very oblivious to the fact that a failed mention any specifi c action he moving painting of women in government can help no one. would take. Would he cut combat (Rapid Fire, March). It is – Charles R. Dooley, Pickens, S.C. military spending? Raise the a tribute to our female troops, retirement age for Social Secu- expressing what it means to be a There are valid arguments rity? Eliminate Medicare, as has woman fi ghting for her country. against a balanced budget already been proposed by some It takes my breath away every amendment, but Rep. Jackson of his colleagues? time I look at it, and I hope it is didn’t state any of them. Instead, Anyone with a grasp of the circulated widely so that every he ran off a list of social-engi- situation will tell us that to American knows that women are neering mantras favored by the balance the federal budget, making the ultimate sacrifi ce left. He was a poor choice for everyone – including the wealth- just like their male counterparts. this debate. iest 1 percent – will have to pay – Adaline Zalkin, Sarasota, Fla. – Scott A. Jones, Council, Idaho their fair share of taxes. One step would have been to allow the Editor’s note: In “When to Turn My question to Rep. Jesse Bush tax cuts to expire. They in the Keys” (Living Well, Jackson Jr. is this: how do we were ill-advised when imple- January), “Hammond’s Ride fulfi ll his ideals when we run out mented and have not made more Guide” was listed as $9.95. That of money? sense with the passage of time. is the price of the digital edition. – Bill Weers, Cedar Rapids, Iowa – Carl L. Hess, Ozark, Ala. A hard copy costs $24.

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When I came home from the Vietnam War in 1972, our nation was bitterly divided. As we all know, the war was not easy, nor was it popular. When time came to honor those who had fought it, the process was likewise neither easy nor popular. Plans for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington met adversity at many turns. But The American Legion was an advocate from the very beginning, raising $1.17 million for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund (VVMF), making our organization the largest single contributor. Maya Lin’s concept for the Wall we now consider a national treasure received considerable public criticism. The Legion never weighed in with an opinion about the aesthetics. Rather, as then-National Legislative Commission Director E. Philip Riggin put it in a 1988 letter,

“we supported the process within which artistic decisions were made.” Chase Studios The American Legion stood by Lin and the panel of judges that deemed National Commander her design the best possible tribute to our fallen comrades. Fang A. Wong Dedication ceremonies took place on Nov. 13, 1982, at the culmination of a fi ve-day “National Salute to Vietnam Veterans.” Legionnaires from MEMORANDA across the country participated in the parade and helped visiting ‘THREE SERVICEMEN’ CARD Vietnam veterans and their families with lodging. Gen. William C. The  membership card for The Westmoreland praised the Legion for its “unwavering support of the American Legion and Sons of The memorial” and added that “the Vietnam veteran has a loyal friend in American Legion features an The American Legion.” image of the Three Servicemen statue, designed by Frederick Hart Concerns over the design, location and general message of the and erected in 1984 near the Wall. memorial have been forgotten since then. The Vietnam Veterans Memo- rial has become the most visited memorial in a city full of them. It is a place of great solemnity, respect and honor, and continues to evolve as new generations interpret the war and its meaning. The next phase is an Education Center at the Wall. The Legion has passed two resolutions supporting the center, which is meant to be a place where the lessons of the war, its impact on our country, and the bravery of those who fought it, can be shared for decades to come. At a ceremony in March commemorating the 30th anniversary of the memorial’s groundbreaking, the concept for the center was unveiled. The VVMF has a goal of housing within the center a “Wall of Faces” that NATIONAL POST HISTORY will include a photo to go with every name on the Wall. Those who wish CONTEST Post historians should to contribute a photo or learn more can visit www.buildthecenter.org. contact their department While a national monument to honor those who gave their lives in historians now regarding judging Iraq and Afghanistan will eventually be built in Washington, the of entries during department Vietnam center includes plans to incorporate those most recent fallen conventions. Only the certifi ed fi rst-place-fi nishing entry from heroes into its design, as well. A visit to the center will, in fact, begin each department is eligible to be with a walking history of America’s wars. “Patriotism will be shown to judged at the national level during be timeless,” the center’s website proclaims. the National Executive As we observe Memorial Day this month, let’s acknowledge that every Committee’s Fall Meetings in ceremony, every monument and every name etched into the Wall are all Indianapolis. Find your part of the same chain, forged through history, forever connecting department information online. “those who served, those who fell and those who wait at home.” We www.legion.org/departments welcome plans for the new education center as another important linklink in that chain.

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I support strong and effective consumer protec- Americans lost plenty during the past few tion. However, the Consumer Financial Protection years. At the recession’s peak, nearly 9 million Bureau, created by the Dodd-Frank Act, does not people had lost their jobs, while millions more have the accountability or transparency necessary lost their homes and retirement savings. The to make it responsive to Congress or the American catalyst for this calamity was a Wall Street run people. Instead, it provides amok. This recklessness led bureaucrats and a new THE HEART OF THE ISSUE to today’s job crisis among Washington czar with Proponents wanted a wholesale retooling our youngest veterans, who unprecedented power and of the newly formed Consumer Financial have faced an unemployment control over our nation’s Protection Bureau before a head of the rate of over 30 percent. entrepreneurs and small agency was named. Others called these Congress passed one of the businesses – the same people demands political stalling tactics. most comprehensive we need to hire more workers. fi nancial reforms of the past The CFPB in its current form could affect what century, establishing the Consumer Financial fi nancial products Americans buy and how much Protection Bureau (CFPB) in July 2011. It was they pay for them. created to ensure that companies give consumers Last November, 44 senators, including myself, the information they need prior to making sent a letter to President Obama outlining fi nancial agreements, to protect against the sort of improvements that should be made in the deceptive lending practices that contributed to structure of the CFPB to bring transparency and the economic collapse. accountability to the agency, such as establishing Unfortunately, Republicans ignored the lessons a board of directors, subjecting the CFPB to we learned and sided with Wall Street, trying to the appropriations process and congressional block these reforms. oversight, and consulting with small businesses. Last summer, President Obama nominated But instead of working with Congress to create Richard Cordray to serve as director of the CFPB. an accountable government, the president Nearly everyone agreed that Cordray is a highly chose another go-it-alone strategy that further qualifi ed attorney with an exceptional legal contributes to Washington gridlock. background. But as months went by, it became The present structure of CFPB violates both basic apparent that Republicans would not confi rm him principles of accountability and our democratic or anyone else for the job. They blocked the values. I believe our common-sense reforms can be nomination because they didn’t like the newly adopted on a bipartisan basis while improving the formed agency he was chosen to lead. structure of the CFPB. In January, more than 170 days after Cordray It’s past time for the president and the Senate was nominated, the president took the bold step of majority to realize that the American people are using constitutional powers to issue a recess tired of the bickering. They want solutions, not appointment to install Cordray as director of the more political stunts. Working toward greater CFPB, standing up to Republican obstruction to transparency and accountability in government ensure that Americans fi nally get the fi nancial should be something we can all agree on. protection they deserve. He did the right thing.

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The Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Belleau, France, is home to the graves of 2,289 Americans who fought in the region during the summer of 1918.

20 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE | MAY 2012 SEALED IN BLOOD Memorial Day at Belleau Wood highlights bonds forged on the battlei eld.

s Marine Corps Commandant James Amos Akneels, Belleau Wood is silent, save for scattered bird songs and the rustling of leaves overhead. He sets a small token at the base of the Marine monument – a commemorative coin given to him from members of Task Force Belleau Wood serving in Afghanistan. Soon, hundreds will fi ll the nearby cemetery for a Memorial Day ceremony. But here, now, in the heart of Belleau Wood, Amos and the Marines behind him are privately honoring those who died taking this forest in one of World War I’s ugliest battles. Lt. Gen. Hervé Charpentier, commander of the French Land Forces, joins Amos in placing a wreath and rendering a salute. we’re fi ghting to save our battlefi elds. Here at At the ceremony, the two offi cers talk of what the Belleau Wood, there’s no commercialization, no Americans did at Bois de la Brigade de Marine, or buildup of housing – a fi tting tribute to our Marines “Wood of the Marine Brigade,” and what it meant. and soldiers who gave the ultimate measure here.” “Their sacrifi ce for this morsel of French ground Lt. Col. Mark Sojourner, who is stationed at sealed in blood the bonds that unite our two Stuttgart and works for AFRICOM, brought his countries,” whose forces have fought side by side wife, Lori, and their two daughters over on a USO on battlefi elds since, Charpentier says. tour. He calls the trip “a pilgrimage every Marine Amos praises an alliance that “continues in the would like to make.” mountains and valleys of Afghanistan, and In Bouresches, a villager ran up to Sojourner recently over the skies of Libya as French Rafales with a bottle of wine and old photographs. “He just and MC Harriers fl ew in support of Operation said ‘thank you’ over and over, that he loved Odyssey Dawn.” Marines and appreciated that we’re here,” he says. Though U.S. soldiers outnumber Marines buried For Mike Miller, director of the Marine Corps at Aisne-Marne, the Marines have a special archives, Memorial Day capped an incredible week attachment to the cemetery and the woods beyond. of exploring Belleau Wood for the fi rst time. He This is where the modern Marine Corps was spent two days walking the battlefi eld, sometimes born – where on June 6, 1918, it lost more men crawling on his hands and knees across ravines. than it had in its entire history up to that point. “You can see fi ghting holes, shell holes, trenches On Memorial Day, they are remembered and worn down,” he says. “There’s an uncomfortable celebrated. A bugler plays Taps. A French student quiet when you’re in there. This is nasty terrain.” reads a poem. The Marine Drum & Bugle Corps Years ago, Miller interviewed Gene Lee, who was gives a rousing performance, and the Marine the battle’s last surviving combat veteran when he Corps Silent Drill Platoon wows the crowd with died at 105. Surrounded by Marine memorabilia, precision marching and rifl e maneuvers. Lee recalled the terror of charging through a wheat After the ceremony, hundreds of Marines – from fi eld swept by German machine-gun fi re. Then he the 5th Regiment, the 6th Regiment, Marine Forces broke down, grieving the buddies he’d lost. Europe in Stuttgart, Germany, and elsewhere – Thinking of Lee, Miller stops at the headstone of gather for a reception in the courtyard of a nearby every soldier, sailor and Marine in the cemetery to chateau, where they take turns sipping from the pay his respects. He’s touched to see that beside famous “devil dog” fountain. each U.S. fl ag fl ies a French fl ag, placed by local “This is my third visit, and every time I come schoolchildren. back I get goose bumps,” says Sgt. Maj. Jamie Deets “This is something every American should see,” of the 6th Marine Regiment. “In the United States he says.

MAY 2012 | THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE 21 At rest abroad ‘THE GLORY OF THEIR DEEDS’ Isolated burials, private memorials trace American blood spilled in France.

ay Shearer has been in France only two Norman DuBois of New Jersey served as a Rhours, and already he’s climbing into a second lieutenant with the 149th Field Artillery. church belfry in the village of Bony, trying He was killed in action July 15, 1918, and is buried to make out a 90-year-old inscription on a weath- on the north side of a church in Cuperly. ered bronze bell. Richard Banks of New York, a second lieutenant “In memory of Lieutenant Alan Mathews,” he in the U.S. Air Service, was killed in a truck reads aloud, translating the French. “Killed in accident Oct. 30, 1918. He’s buried in Cimetière action Aug. 3, 1918.” du Sud in Nancy. From the top of the church, Shearer can see the Shearer has been to their graves, and dozens white marble crosses of the Somme American more like them. When a U.S. fl ag’s out, he’ll spot Cemetery. Among them is a headstone for the headstone right away. Other times, having Mathews, a second lieutenant in the 132nd Infan- incomplete or inaccurate information, he’ll ask try and Cornell graduate, killed by shell fi re when le maire – the mayor – or another local for help. his regiment joined the front line at Albert. Inevitably, these conversations alert him to a Unknown to all but a few, Bony’s church bell memorial plaque or monument the next town over. belongs to an aging group of private memorials, They spark friendships, too – from French citizens monuments and isolated to U.S. veterans living there, burials across France that Shearer is fi nding allies in his trace American blood spilled efforts to document and in the two world wars. preserve sites honoring Shearer visits and photo- America’s wartime contribu- graphs as many of these sites tions in France. as he can squeeze into his trips for the American No Small Task. Lillian Pfl uke Overseas Memorial Day welcomes Shearer’s work. Association (AOMDA), A retired Army major who which, with The American graduated in the fi rst class of Legion’s support, places fl ags women at West Point in 1980, at all known graves of U.S. For 15 years, Ray Shearer has been documenting she spent a decade at the servicemembers in Europe. America’s isolated burials, private memorials American Battle Monuments As a trustee and secretary, and monuments in France. Commission (ABMC) in Paris Shearer attends AOMDA’s overseeing private memori- annual board meeting and Memorial Day ceremo- als – basically, anything that isn’t put up by the nies at many of the U.S. cemeteries in France. U.S. government. Years ago, he started taking a few extra days to ABMC keeps track of, and periodically inspects, crisscross the country, curious to learn more about assorted statues, plaques, fountains, windows and the 183 remote burials that receive U.S. fl ags from other markers. Some were gifts to be maintained AOMDA every spring. by their recipients. Others were erected by vil- “Over time, fewer people are aware of the sites,” lages, families or veterans associations. ABMC he says. “Nobody could tell me anything about encourages sponsoring organizations and towns to them – who they were, where they were at. So I take care of these, and even allows them to set up obtained a list and started going out.” a trust fund with ABMC for that purpose. But Stanley Hill of Massachusetts survived a frac- ABMC doesn’t maintain them. tured skull when a shell exploded near his ambu- “It’s not ABMC’s mission to do that, and they lance as he was evacuating wounded soldiers near don’t really have the money to do that,” Pfl uke Reims on July 15, 1918. He died of meningitis a says. “I made a lot of headway for them, but I month later and is buried in a French military realized I was never going to solve the problem cemetery in La Veuve. within that constraint.”

22 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE | MAY 2012 Second Lt. Norman DuBois of New Jersey served with the 149th Field Artillery, 42nd Division, during World War I. He was killed in action July 15, 1918, and buried on the north side of a church in Cuperly, in France’s Champagne-Ardennes region.

She left and started a nonprofi t foundation, to photograph sites, describe them, and pinpoint American War Memorials Overseas (AWMO), to their locations for posting on AWMO’s website. “document, promote and preserve” the nation’s “You can read a book and say, ‘Oh, there’s a wartime legacy. As of March, its online database plaque in Bastogne,’ but you’ll look a long time for had recorded 542 private memorials at 310 sites, a plaque in Bastogne unless you know exactly with 3,206 names where it is. We give GPS coordinates and a good Learn more about American and 1,105 units. description so people can actually fi nd it.” War Memorials Overseas: Some are Preserving private memorials is a greater chal- www.uswarmemorials.org especially distant, lenge. Gen. John J. Pershing said of his generation including the of fi ghting Americans, “Time will not dim the glory graves of fi ve of their deeds.” Our memories aren’t so fortunate. airmen of the U.S. Army Air Corps in Australia, In fact, Pershing opposed anything other than two plaques in New Zealand commemorating the offi cial monuments because he feared they’d arrival of the 2nd Marine Division following eventually be neglected, says Peter Herrly, Pfl uke’s Guadalcanal, and a monument to Task Force Smith husband and a retired Army colonel and member at Osan, South Korea. The lion’s share of memori- of the Legion’s Paris Post 1. als, though, is in Europe. Nevertheless, there are as many as 800 private “Documenting means fi nding them all, which is memorials in France. no small task,” says Pfl uke, who relies on volunteers “The sources for them are legion,” Herrly says.

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Quentin Roosevelt, the youngest son of President Theodore Roosevelt, served as a pilot in the 95th Aero Squadron. He was shot down July 14, 1918, behind enemy lines and was buried by the Germans. The wreckage of his plane is on display at Chateau Thierry’s city hall. After Quentin’s death, Theodore Roosevelt wrote, “We have always believed that where the tree falls, there let it lay.” This sentiment infl uenced thousands of American families, who, when given a choice, opted to leave their sons either buried where they fell or interred at one of the eight U.S. cemeteries on foreign soil.

“Maybe it’s a village that saw an airplane shot combat with the Germans, 1,811 killed and 7,966 down and rescued somebody. They saw the other wounded – he sent the famous message, “Woods crew die and put up a monument to them. Maybe now U.S. Marine Corps entirely.” it’s an infantry unit, a stone that says, ‘To the In 1998, Shearer traveled to France to mark the American soldiers from the state of Pennsylvania battle’s 80th anniversary, and he returns every who fought and sacrifi ced here.’ Well, it doesn’t year to lay a wreath at the Aisne-Marne American belong to the Army. Who’s going to take care of it? Cemetery and Memorial, down the hill from the Maybe the state of Pennsylvania will, but they forest of the legendary teufelshunde – “devil dogs.” have to know about it. He knows the surrounding fi elds and villages “Maybe it’s a mother of a soldier who was killed, well – Belleau, Torcy, Lucy-le-Bocage, Bouresches. and she comes to France or Belgium or Luxembourg This is where Capt. Lloyd Williams, when advised to put up a monument to her son. She convinces the by a French offi cer to withdraw, said, “Retreat? village to let her place it there and then she dies. Hell, we just got here.” Where Gunnery Sgt. Dan Again, who’s going to take care of it?” Daly, a two-time Medal of Honor recipient before The French have a private association, Souvenir he even got to Europe, shouted, “C’mon, you sons Français, to care for their war memorials. Pfl uke of bitches, you want to live forever?” Where 2nd Lt. believes a similar outfi t can fi nd long-term mainte- Tom Ashley charged a German machine-gun nest, nance solutions for America’s memorials. fought until he was shot through both hips and the Many sites are well cared for by the French, abdomen, and bled to death under a tree. particularly in areas where tourism is a big part of In Bouresches, Shearer stops at Café de la Place, the economy, she says. But other American memo- a small restaurant owned by friends, Magdalena rials fall into disrepair as sponsors pass away and and Jean Myslinski. Inside, faded photos of crum- personal knowledge about the events disappears. bling buildings remind residents of how the village In those cases, AWMO contacts the military unit or was nearly destroyed during the war. And on a local offi cials to help. Depending on the situation, bulletin board near the bar hangs a story about it may pay for materials and send in volunteers Pvt. 1st Class George Dilboy, titled “A Soldier’s Tale like the Girl Scouts to clean up. for Those Who Come to Bouresches.” “Often, if we do a renovation, it renews the Dilboy was a Greek immigrant to America who town’s interest in the monument and they jump in fought at the Mexican border in 1916 and 1917. He to take care of it,” Pfl uke says. rejoined the Army to fi ght in France, where he was killed when the 103rd Infantry encountered Sacred Ground. Shearer has a personal connection German resistance at Bouresches. After his platoon to World War I. His great-uncle was Maj. Maurice captured a railroad station, Dilboy was fi red upon Shearer, who led the 3rd Battalion 5th Marines in by a machine gunner. Standing on the track and the fi nal assault to capture Belleau Wood. On June fully exposed, he fi xed his bayonet and ran 26, 1918 – after three weeks of brutal hand-to-hand forward. His right leg was nearly severed above

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City State Zip Send to: Premier Care in Bathing 2330 South Nova Rd., South Daytona, Florida 32119 At rest abroad the knee, and his body was riddled with bullets, He was able to do something similar in Ville- but he continued to fi re, killing two of the enemy Savoye, where 2nd Lt. Edward Graham of the and dispersing the gun crew. He was posthumous- 305th Field Artillery died Aug. 21, 1918. Four days ly awarded the Medal of Honor. earlier, Graham had been relieved because his eyes Magdalena tells Shearer about a new memorial were infl amed from mustard gas, but he insisted to Dilboy, in the fi eld where he fell on the outskirts on returning to duty. of Bouresches. On July 18, 2010 – 91 years after Outside a cave used as a shelter by soldiers, Dilboy’s death – villagers joined members of his Graham and two other men were killed by an family in planting an oak tree from his homeland. exploding shell. For decades, a bronze plaque With Memorial Day approaching, the accompany- marked the spot, but when Shearer fi nally located ing plaque is decorated with U.S. and French fl ags. the cave, the plaque was gone. Before heading out to see it, Shearer walks “You could see where it had been,” he says. “I got through town with together with a few Magdalena, who points people I knew would out walls and roofs that support something like were never repaired this, and we had a new after the war. Much of plaque made of granite, the rebuilding was done with one of those using the same stones, ceramic photos people she says. put on headstones now.” All over Bouresches, Shearer isn’t alone in more miniature U.S. doing restoration work. and French fl ags wave, Near the village of including a couple from Jaulny, in northeastern a street sign bearing the France, the above- name of Lt. j.g. Weeden ground tomb of Capt. Osborne, a Navy dental Oliver Cunningham has surgeon and Medal of been repaired and the Honor recipient who Soldiers of the 2nd Division set up 24 concrete boulders across land around it cleared. France to mark where they fought during the fi rst world war. was killed in the A Yale graduate who Only a few have the original bronze plaques. advance on Bouresches. fought at Chateau Osborne was carrying wounded Marine Capt. Thierry, Vaux and Belleau Wood, Cunningham Donald Duncan to safety when an artillery shell was killed by mortar fi re on his 24th birthday, exploded and killed them both instantly. Sept. 17, 1918. His comrades of the 15th Field In a few days, following the Memorial Day Artillery buried him with military honors where ceremony at Aisne Marne, Café de la Place will he fell, though he was eventually reinterred at St. host guests from the Marine Corps battalions that Mihiel American Cemetery in Thiaucourt. distinguished themselves at the Battle of Belleau When Shearer fi rst looked for Cunningham’s Wood – the 2/6 out of Camp Lejeune, N.C., and the tomb, he came up empty, walking within 20 yards 3/5 out of Camp Pendleton, Calif. Together, they’ll of it and turning around when he saw high weeds toast their predecessors’ bravery and sacrifi ce. and downed trees. Making the search more “It’s an honor to have them,” Magdalena says. diffi cult were old instructions that located it 500 meters from the village cemetery. “That could be Hearts and Minds. Just opposite the church in anywhere,” he says. Lucy-le-Bocage is an imposing concrete boulder, Shearer then realized that the wooded area had about fi ve feet across. On the top is a raised star, been a fi eld, and tried again. He found the tomb, with a tarnished marker dated June 1, 1918. The but it was cracked, and the marble tablets on top Army’s 2nd Division placed 24 of these monu- were in pieces. Since then, a local group – the ments in France, wherever it saw action. Association Lorraine d’Histoire Militaire Contem- “This is one of the few that still has a bronze poraine – has done a complete renovation. plaque,” Shearer says. “We don’t know what’s “The mortar has been patched, the tablets have happened to the others. Could be collectors over been replaced, and there’s a placard on the front,” the decades. We’re trying to get them replaced.” he says. “It looks fabulous. It’s a perfect example

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On Sept. 17, 1918, Capt. Oliver Cunningham of the 15th Artillery, 2nd Division, was killed by a shell explosion near Jaulny, France. He is buried at St. Mihiel American Cemetery, but Cunningham’s original tomb marks the spot where he died. His family gave three bells to the church in Thiaucourt in his memory. of the efforts made by many people in France to crashed during an armed reconnaissance mission. maintain our memorials.” Saunders stayed with the plane to make sure it Some are even building new ones. Jocelyne didn’t hit the village, and until his remains were Papelard loves the United States. She came to the moved to Epinal, the people of Perreuil guarded country on a Fulbright scholarship, married an his grave. Today, they fl y the U.S. fl ag over his American and became a U.S. citizen. After moving memorial. back to France, she joined AOMDA’s board, and In Plottes, Shearer looks around for a plaque on she takes local schoolchildren to place fl owers on the wall of a small house. He fi nds it at the town soldiers’ graves at Epinal American Cemetery for square. This is where the bodies of three Memorial Day. crewmembers and six passengers were brought Last year, Papelard invited veterans of the 3rd after their B-26 crashed in the woods Nov. 13, Infantry Division to help inaugurate a monument 1944. Despite fog warnings, Lt. Richard Hisey fl ew honoring 18 U.S. soldiers who died to liberate her on toward Longvic, the new home of the 320th village of Luxeuil les Bains in 1944. This summer, Bomb Group. When he descended, trying to fi nd Army offi cials from Germany will dedicate a stele the Saône River, the plane fl ew into a hillside and for 1st Lt. Robert Booth of the 405th Fighter burst into fl ames. The townspeople never forgot, Squadron, who crashed in the Vosges while trying and on the 60th anniversary of the crash, they wel- to deliver relief supplies to the 36th Infantry comed relatives of the bomb crew for a memorial Division’s “Lost Battalion” on Oct. 27, 1944. Both celebration, parade and laying of fl owers. monuments were donated by a Frenchman. Back on the road – somewhere in Allerey is the “It isn’t important who organizes these ceremo- grave of Pvt. Paul Burton, the fi rst American to die nies,” Papelard says. “It’s that they take place. Not at the camp hospital there in 1918 – Shearer only do we have to keep the memory alive our- considers what to do with all the information he’s selves, we must nurture it in the hearts and minds collecting. He’d like to share it in some way with of our young.” Americans who want to personally trace the U.S. That seems to be the sentiment at Shearer’s next military’s legacy in Europe. two stops, which are also World War II sites. At “It’s safe to say that wherever you go in France, Perreuil, in eastern France, he pulls over to see a you’re probably within an hour of an isolated memorial stone for fl ight offi cer Leroy Saunders, burial or private memorial,” he says. “Take the who died Sept. 4, 1944, when his P-47 Thunderbolt time to visit a site.”

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PARTNERS IN REMEMBRANCE The Legion, American Overseas Memorial Day Association share ancestry.

he Americans who won the fi rst world Drake and the Rev. F.W. Beekman, an Army Twar grew up decorating the graves of chaplain and dean of the American Cathedral in Civil War dead. Paris, raised funds through newspaper appeals Leaving Europe for home, they trusted others to and by asking Legion posts in the United States, do the same for their 78,000 comrades resting Americans living in France and soldiers along the eternally beneath white wooden crosses blanketing Rhine to contribute to the proper decoration of the French and Belgian countryside. graves. French citizens, who wanted to take part in “It is the fi rst Memorial Day in the blood-ground the ceremonies, gave unsolicited donations. of the old A.E.F. without the A.E.F.,” wrote J.W. Few occasions have been as poignant, or as Rixey Smith in the May 28, 1920, American Legion unifying. At Thiaucourt, U.S. and French soldiers Weekly. “The actual presence of tribute and ceremo- watched farmers and their families weep for the ny to American dead abroad must be left to Ameri- Americans who died to free their towns. On the can agencies in Europe, to the Allied governments edge of Belleau Wood, a detachment of Marines and to the folk among whom they are buried.” helped the people of Torcy and Belleau spread red A Memorial Day committee led by Hugh Wal- poppies, white daisies and blue cornfl owers on lace, U.S. ambassador to France, and Lt. Col. graves. At Romagne, the mayor and priest marched Francis Drake, commander of the Legion’s Depart- before a wreath so large it required 23 men to ment of France and founder of Paris Post 1, carry it, while schoolchildren linked every cross planned a grand observance across the continent. with a chain of daisies and sang hymns. Tribute would be paid from Romagne in the Within two years, the bodies of 46,284 American Argonne, where 22,000 soldiers were buried, to servicemen were returned to the United States, at Lille, where three sailors had been laid to rest. their families’ request. Another 30,921 from World “No American fi eld of honor on the other side War I will forever remain in U.S. cemeteries will be without its Memorial Day ceremony, no overseas, where the heirs to Drake’s Memorial Day American grave without its fl ag and its fl owers,” committee are faithful to place a fl ag at every one Smith reported. of their headstones every May.

30 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE | MAY 2012 The American Legion’s founders believed they had a responsibility to decorate the graves of the nation’s overseas war dead.

Shared Roots. In 1923, the Paris Memorial Day Herman Harjes, an American banker who joined Committee voted to change its name to the the Army and became Gen. John “Black Jack” American Overseas Memorial Day Association Pershing’s liaison to the French, served as Post 1’s (AOMDA). Participating organizations included the fi rst commander. A.W. Kipling, an Army captain Legion, the American Graves Registration Service, who supervised the evacuation of American the American Chamber of Commerce, the wounded from the battlefi eld to Paris hospitals, American Red Cross, the American Club, the was post adjutant. Cabot Ward, in charge of American hospital, the American University Union, counterintelligence at St. Mihiel, was vice com- Franco-American Welfare, the Knights of mander. Nelson Jay, another banker who worked Columbus and the YMCA. for Pershing, was a founding member of the post. “The Legion essentially started AOMDA,” All served on AOMDA’s board under the leader- says Ray Shearer, a Marine Corps veteran and ship of Drake and Beekman, Post 1’s chaplain. Legionnaire who has served on the association’s Acting primarily as Legionnaires, they arranged board of trustees since 2000. “The same group that Memorial Day ceremonies, sent delegations from formed Paris Post 1 was instrumental in establish- the post to cemeteries outside Paris and, by 1923, ing the association.” raised over a million francs from the Legion and the public to help cover the costs of graves decoration. Recognizing that the income from that fund HOW TO JOIN AOMDA wasn’t enough to meet each year’s need, Drake Yearly membership dues for AOMDA are $ or asked the Legion to establish a permanent endow-  euros. Life memberships are $ or  euros. ment. A two-month campaign succeeded in raising Request a membership application or download $161,500. Interest generated by the Overseas the form online. Graves Decoration Trust fund today purchases all www.aomda.com U.S. fl ags placed at the graves of America’s war [email protected] dead in Europe. Since 2007 alone, the Legion has AOMDA provided nearly 63,000 fl ags. P.O. Box  Even in 1940, when Americans were fl eeing Paris Indianapolis, IN - and all the cemeteries except Suresnes were in AOMDA is a (c)() nonprofi t organization. German hands or on the battlefront, the Legion and Contributions, including membership, are tax- AOMDA commemorated Memorial Day by placing deductible in the United States and France. Donations, marble crosses and poppy wreaths – one for each grants and bequests in any amount are welcome. site – at the altar of the American Cathedral.

MAY 2012 | THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE 31 At rest abroad

After World War II, the American Battle Monu- ments Committee (ABMC) added 13 cemeteries in Europe, bringing the total to 21. AOMDA coordi- nates graves decoration and Memorial Day ceremo- nies at all of them – 11 in France, three in Bel- gium, two in England, two in Italy, one in Luxembourg, one in Holland and one in Tunisia. AOMDA also arranges for the decoration of individual isolated burials, supplying U.S. fl ags for 183 sites in France, eight in Belgium, and others in Germany, Denmark, Norway and Sweden. In anticipation of Memorial Day, volunteers gather in Paris every January to mail fresh fl ags to local offi cials, families, Legion posts, civic groups and Ray Shearer, left, and James Gerard carry on AOMDA’s mission U.S. embassies assuming responsibility for graves. to observe Memorial Day at U.S. cemeteries overseas. At the cemeteries, AOMDA and ABMC staff work with neighboring towns and villages to make back to the Revolutionary War. In Belgium, four certain that Old Glory graces every headstone. A-10 Thunderbolts out of Spangdahlem Air Base in “It’s phenomenal,” Shearer says. “The day before Germany fl ew over a crowd gathered at the Ar- the ceremony, local schoolchildren and their parents dennes cemetery, U.S. and Belgian troops paraded come out and place our fl ags at our guys’ graves. their nations’ colors at Henri-Chapelle, and a The Aisne-Marne cemetery has 2,289 burials, and student from the Brussels American School recited they’ll have all the fl ags placed in a couple of hours. John McCrae’s famous poem at Flanders Field. At Normandy has 9,387. The Lorraine cemetery has Cambridge American Cemetery in England, 10,489. The Meuse-Argonne, the biggest one in dignitaries, military personnel and veterans laid Europe and the biggest of World War I, has 14,246. more than 120 wreaths. Every one gets a fl ag placed at it.” For 25 years, Gerard has presided over ceremo- nies at the Somme American Cemetery in Bony, “Long After We’re Gone.” Like a lot of groups born France. His father – a brigadier general who served in the aftermath of the world wars, AOMDA is in World War II and the Korean War – did so from facing a steep membership decline. With fewer 1964 to 1986. U.S. veterans living in France, there are fewer “The mayors of these towns throw open their people and resources to support AOMDA’s mission. doors on Memorial Day,” Gerard says. “They really James Gerard, a New York investment manager want to show their thanks. There’s always a toast and AOMDA’s treasurer, says the association lives to French-American cooperation and friendship on “a shoestring budget of about $20,000,” includ- after every ceremony. It’s a very moving day. If ing a $5,000 grant from the Legion that supports more Americans saw it, they’d say, ‘Wow.’” Memorial Day ceremonies in Europe. That falls He and Shearer plan to boost AOMDA’s profi le short of the $25,000 – and rising – cost of Memo- with a more interactive website that tells the rial Day ceremonies in France alone. stories of isolated war graves overseas. They’re In March, AOMDA voted to create a permanent also reaching out to military unit associations and endowment to fund all Memorial Day activities at veterans groups – Legionnaires, in particular, U.S. overseas cemeteries. Gerard fi gures that if whose founders vowed that on one day each year, even 3 million of the 24 million living U.S. veter- for all time, the graves of their comrades would be ans each contributed a dollar, AOMDA would be decorated and their sacrifi ces acknowledged. able to support Memorial Day ceremonies “long “The people of AOMDA do this as a labor of after we’re gone.” love,” Gerard says. “It’s up to people like Ray and These events are worthy of the dead they honor. me to pick up the torch and carry it forward. We In 2011, thousands congregated at American are the ones who are going to make sure these cemeteries across France to hear military bands soldiers are remembered.” play “La Marseillaise” and “The Star-Spangled Banner,” and U.S. and French offi cers refl ected on Matt Grills is managing editor of The American their nations’ history of shared sacrifi ce dating Legion Magazine.

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MAY 2012 | THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE 35 ROAD TO NOWHERE Returning veterans face the worst job market of their lives. BY KEN OLSEN Kai Jorgensen was laid off just before Thanksgiving 2011, the third time the recession has cost him his job since he left the Marine Corps in May 2009. He wasn’t prepared for such a cold reception from the civilian world after four years of keeping troops on the front lines supplied with gear and working as a ground safety offi cer. “I didn’t expect this at all, especially coming get medical care for injuries he sustained when an out in the fi eld of logistics,” says Jorgensen, 25, a 850-pound armored-vehicle tire fell on him three Beaverton, Ore., native who has applied for hun- weeks before he left Iraq. “For guys who have not dreds of jobs. “I’m very discouraged.” been hurt, it’s hard,” Vaughn says of the job Yet the fact that Jorgensen has found any employ- search. “For guys who are hurt, it’s ridiculous.” ment – even minimum-wage work – makes him The men and women who have served since 9/11 one of the more fortunate returning servicemem- have the highest unemployment rate among their bers. The job hunt has been even more diffi cult for peers, according to a 2011 congressional study. The Oregon Army National Guardsmen like Shad magnitude of the problem is often understated, Vaughn. Half of the soldiers in Vaughn’s company because the most commonly cited government didn’t have jobs when they came home in April numbers don’t tell the whole story. The U.S. 2010 after a yearlong deployment to Iraq, he says. Bureau of Labor Statistics is often quoted as Vaughn’s family has lived off credit cards and estimating unemployment among returning hardship grants – and his children are on state veterans 18 to 24 at about the same level as assistance – while he looks for work and fi ghts to nonveterans in that age group.

Illustration by Tim Hildebrandt 36 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE | MAY 2012 But Bloomberg News dug deeper into the govern- warehouse specialist. That ended shortly before ment data and found a far grimmer picture. Thanksgiving because the company lost a major Veterans 18 to 24 had a 30.4-percent jobless rate as contract due to government cutbacks. of October 2011, about double the unemployment “It’s gotten to the point I’m applying for jobs all rate of nonveterans in the same age range. That’s over the country,” Jorgensen says. also a signifi cant jump from the October 2010 Vaughn doesn’t have that option. A .50-caliber unemployment rate of 18.4 percent among the gunner and mechanic, his six-year hitch with the youngest veterans, Bloomberg reported. Black National Guard runs until 2015. Meanwhile, in veterans 18 to 24 were faring the worst, with a addition to looking for work, he is focused on some 48-percent jobless rate. missing paperwork that’s made it nearly impos- sible for him to get treatment for back, neck, Fleeting Success. Jorgensen’s initial return to shoulder and other injuries he suffered when a tire civilian life was more promising. He found work as fell 14 feet from a forklift and knocked him uncon- a loss-prevention agent for a major department scious near the end of his tour in Iraq. store soon after leaving the Marines but was laid The Army put him on light duty and told him to off a year later. “Since then, it’s been real hectic wait to seek treatment until he got home, Vaughn and hard,” he says. says. Once his unit returned to the United States, He found a no-benefi ts job driving a delivery he went to VA, where his claim has been stalled truck in September 2010 but was laid off right because of the missing paperwork, he says. His after Christmas that same year. He turned to a primary-care physician, meanwhile, dismissed his minimum-wage job at a golf course and enrolled complaints of neck pain without obtaining a CT in college. Although he was told there was room scan that would later show fractured vertebrae. for growth, Jorgensen soon discovered that “We’ve been fi ghting tooth and nail to get people with four years at the golf course were records of my injuries the last two years,” Vaughn only making an additional 50 cents an hour. says. “It’s been rough, especially for my wife and “I decided to continue school without that two kids. The sad thing is, I know there are a lot of distraction,” Jorgensen says. The decision came guys out there with the same problems, but they after he realized that he was barely earning don’t want to get involved in it. I can’t give up enough to pay for his gas to drive to work. “A lot because I’ve got so much invested in it.” of us who spent four years on active duty don’t American Legion service offi cer Gregory Dema- have a college degree, although when I read the rais became aware of Vaughn’s case in early requirements, I know I can do a lot of the jobs December and worked to push forward his VA (that call for a degree).” disability claim. Demarais also secured temporary His luck appeared to turn in September 2011, fi nancial assistance through the Legion to help when he found a job as a delivery driver and pay Vaughn’s rent, and obtained donations for

MAY 2012 | THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE 37 A silver lining 100 While job prospects may look bleak, some federal agencies have KEY been making progress at hiring veteran employees. VA, DoD, DHS Department of Veterans Aff airs and CBP all show increasing 80 percentages of veterans within Department of Homeland Security their work forces. Department of Defense

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20 PERCENTAGE OF PERCENTAGE TOTAL EMPLOYEESTOTAL 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Sources: VA, Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Offi ce of Personnel Management, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Christmas presents for Vaughn’s family through Veterans now make up about 29 percent of the The Salvation Army, American Legion Post 122, work force at U.S. Customs and Border Protection the American Legion Auxiliary and VA employees. (CBP), an arm of Homeland Security. CBP added This is nothing out of the ordinary for Demarais. more than 800 veteran employees each of the last He distributed $19,000 in emergency funding to two years alone with an aggressive recruiting unemployed Oregon veterans in the fi rst 10 days of program, says Judy Hatter, who oversees veteran that month alone. recruiting for the agency. That includes more than 340 job fairs and other events aimed at attracting National Attention. Meanwhile, there are applicants with military experience. efforts in Washington to deal with the problem. USAJOBS, an online application program that is The Legion and other organizations successfully mandatory for most federal jobs, is notoriously pushed Congress to pass the Hire Heroes Act late confusing and time-consuming, according to many last fall. The legislation gives private businesses up government job seekers. CBP sets up laptop to $5,600 in tax credits for hiring unemployed computers at job fairs and walks veterans through veterans, and as much as $9,600 to businesses that the process. The Department of Homeland Security hire unemployed veterans with service-connected has also established a Warrior Transition Program disabilities. that allows it to bypass USAJOBS and hire quali- The Obama administration has also increased fi ed veterans for some positions. The USDA initia- the number of veterans working for the federal tive also envisions a more streamlined application government, despite an overall hiring decrease. process for veterans seeking particular jobs. The Defense Department, VA and the Department Doug Peters, a Marine Corps veteran who of Homeland Security employ the most veterans of participated in the invasions of Afghanistan and any federal agencies. In late February, the U.S. Iraq, found a home at CBP last September. His Department of Agriculture signed a memorandum advice to veterans: “Make every effort to go to of understanding with The American Legion to school, even if it’s part-time, even if you have to launch a nationwide veteran-hiring initiative that work a job and take night classes.” aims to employ veterans in rural areas. VA has Peters’ experience, however, demonstrates that increased its veteran-employee numbers from education alone isn’t enough. He earned a bach- 59,563 in fi scal 2004 to 101,651 in fi scal 2011. elor’s degree in history and a law degree after

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Even then, it took him “Unfortunately, we aren’t in a position to hire all of 18 months and hundreds of applications to fi nd a the guys and girls who come home.” job after he graduated from the University of Older veterans are also struggling. Tony Detroit Mercy School of Law in May 2010. Hoffman has applied for jobs with VA in Florida “I was really having a diffi cult time even getting and Indiana for more than a decade, and he’s only people to call me back,” says Peters, 32, now a landed one interview. Instead of a job, he says, VA labor and employee relations specialist with CBP offered him a volunteer position passing out in Washington. His break came when a representa- magazines and pencils. tive from Naval District Washington’s Wounded “I go up there every time there’s an opening,” Warrior Employment Program forwarded his says Hoffman, who served as a licensed practical résumé to CBP. nurse in the Army from 1984 to 1991. “I have an Expert Field Medical Badge. I ran a clinic in the Combat Experience Wanted. Customs and Army for two and a half years. They said they Border Protection isn’t the only place where didn’t understand all of that. I can qualify to work veterans are valued. West Coast-based private as a janitor, but not as a nurse who can start IVs employer Vigor Industrial hires veterans because and has skills above and beyond the average LPN. the ship-repair company values their technical It’s disheartening.” skills as well as their ability to think quickly, ask Hoffman worries about the hurdles facing questions and make suggestions. job-seeking veterans who served in Iraq and “Veterans, especially people who have experi- Afghanistan. “There’s going to be a whole lot of enced combat training or combat, are well suited medics coming home soon,” he says. “I think the for ship repair,” says Daava Mills, a corporate young guys are going to get discouraged.” recruiter for Vigor. “Things turn on a dime.” Robert Randy has been so dismayed by his job The company does short-notice ship repair searches that he’s considered leaving his four years for everyone from oceangoing cargo companies with the Marine Corps off his résumé to see if it to the U.S. Navy. That can mean showing up at makes a difference. He earned a degree in interna- 2 a.m. to get a ship in dry dock. “We have to tional business after getting out of the service in make our deadlines, or companies have to rent 1990, and worked at a variety of companies until ships,” Mills says. opening three cellular telephone retail stores in The company’s employees range from San Diego. Two of the stores went out of business Vietnam War veterans to men and women after the economy soured. He sold the third after who recently returned from serving in Iraq his wife landed a job in Oregon in 2007. He hasn’t and Afghanistan. They hold jobs from general been able to fi nd a job since, even after applying labor to director of operations. Even the laborer for work as a state and county veterans service jobs are not typical, Mills says. Workers have representative. to be able to read blueprints and perform “I don’t know what I am going to do from here,” other technical tasks, such as fi guring out how Randy says. “I want to work. I need to be able to to safely block up a ship in dry dock. Veterans work for my health.” often have these skills. Veterans like Vaughn and Jorgensen also fi nd it Many of the veterans working at Vigor were diffi cult to be optimistic. “It’s been one battle after Navy or Air Force avionics and electrical special- another from every which way,” Vaughn says. ists. Because they are doing maritime electrical “There’s no reason for the guys coming back to get work, they are not required to get additional state this much crap.” licenses to work for Vigor. That’s an important Jorgensen just wants the opportunity to get advantage for veterans, who often fi nd that beyond the typical computer application process to employers don’t recognize their military licenses sell himself in person. because of state and federal regulations. “You want to come back, help your community, Mills personally understands the challenges get an education, start a family,” Jorgensen says. veterans face fi nding work. Her father struggled to “For me, it would be great just being able to get fi nd meaningful employment after 24 years in the into the interview process. I think if I could just get Air Force, including a tour in Vietnam. face to face with employers, I could get a job.” “He went from planning missions and planning wars to packing boxes, so I have an appreciation Ken Olsen is a frequent contributor to The for what these guys go through,” Mills says. American Legion Magazine.

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BY CRAIG ROBERTS obody on Capitol Hill paid much attention to N John “Top” Holland until he changed his wardrobe. In his earliest days of lobbying, when the Vietnam generation was young, a gentleman would never visit a place or person of importance dressed in anything other than a well-pressed business suit. And so it was that Holland, a veteran of World War II, Korea and Vietnam, climbed Capitol Hill in his Sunday best to deliver his message to Congress. To hear his friend Walt Sides tell it, Holland blended right into the halls of Congress – in fact, a little too well, he fi nally decided. To get anyone’s attention, Holland needed an image change. He went for an almost sinister-looking combination of militaria and Harley Davidson leathers, apparel he and his friends felt most comfortable wearing. It paid off. Dressed as they were, they began getting more and more attention when pleading with lawmakers to address what they viewed as offi cial neglect of POW/MIA issues. The biker garb wasn’t a gimmick, but normal weekend attire for Holland, Sides, retired Marine Cpl. Ray Manzo and Ted Sampley – co-founders of Rolling Thunder, which has grown into the massive annual “Run to the Wall” motorcycle procession in Washington. This Memorial Day, Rolling Thunder celebrates its 25th anniversary, and The American Legion is an offi cial sponsor.

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0000 THETTHHHEE AMERICANAMERAAMMMERMEERERICICCANCAANAN LEGIONLEGLEEGGIOIONIOONN MMAGMAMAGAMAGAZINEAAGAAGGAGAZZINZIININNEE | MMAYAAYYY2 2012 2010121122 Holland, a Legionnaire, was born in 1927. He left “Ray come walkin’ up there with Bob, and Ray his family’s farm in southern Indiana just before said he wanted to do a motorcycle run, and we his 15th birthday, a month after the Japanese talked about it a few minutes. John said, ‘Whaddya attacked Pearl Harbor. He lied about his age to a think?’ And I said, ‘Man, I don’t know.’ So that’s Marine Corps recruiter and got in. He was in the how it started.” Marines for the duration of World War II, then Despite doubts about the run’s viability, the joined the Army in 1947. He saw action in Korea veterans went to work on the National Park Service and later with the Special Forces in Vietnam, and local authorities to gain permission for a motor- pulling four tours as one of the original Green cycle parade. Initially, public-safety offi cials resisted Berets. He retired from the service in 1970, but the idea of a horde of leather-clad bikers invading the took up the POW/MIA cause with a vengeance. It broad avenues and green expanses of the capital. would be his calling for the rest of his life. “They didn’t wanna hear ‘boom,’” Sides says. Prior to Holland’s funeral in July 2010, Rolling Sampley, a former Green Beret, has a history of Thunder colleague Danny “Greasy” Belcher wrote activism on behalf of Vietnam War veterans dating on various websites, “EVERYONE with a POW/ to the early 1980s. His public demonstrations for the MIA patch or who claims to care about the POW/ POW/MIA cause were legendary. He once chained MIA issue should attend John’s funeral. He was himself to the White House gates, waged highly the fi rst to get the POW/MIA issue moving by charged public attacks on Sens. John McCain and trying to change the 1942 Missing Service John Kerry, displayed bamboo cages housing mock Personnel Act, which let a POW/MIA be de- POWs, and spent more than one night behind bars clared dead after one year ... John Holland was the himself for his actions. one who got us off our complaining asses and In 1994, Sampley – to make a point about the calling and visiting our congressmen and sena- importance of identifying MIAs – announced his tors ... He made us accountable for our fellow belief that the remains in the Tomb of the Un- abandoned Americans and showed us that we knowns at Arlington National Cemetery were not could do something besides complain.” unknown at all. After much research, he concluded Manzo, the man credited with actually conceiv- that the allegedly anonymous warrior sealed in the ing the now-famous motorcycle run, was not much tomb was actually an Air Force pilot reported as different. Sides recalls that the idea was fi rst MIA: Lt. Michael Blassie, who had been shot down advanced by Manzo on a “nice, warm, sunny day in in 1972. The theory was confi rmed by DNA analysis June 1987” on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. in 1998. Sampley died in 2009 at 62. Blassie’s sister Sides and Holland were sitting there, thinking back gave a eulogy at the funeral. on their years in the service, when they were In 1956, at 16, Walt Sides joined the Marines approached by fellow vet Bob Schmidt, who was after “getting in a little trouble.” Like Holland a leading a stranger, Manzo. decade and a half before, Sides lied about his age to get in. After his hitch, he took advantage of the GI Bill and enrolled at the University of Oklahoma, where he played football. There, he explains, he soon found himself “in a little more trouble” and headed back to the Marines. This time, he stayed in for 21 years. Sides worked as a sniper-scout platoon leader in Vietnam. After retiring from the service, he took up the POW/MIA cause and remains vocal about the issue today. “We know damn well there’s people left over there,” he says. ‘There’s over 1,200 still not account- ed for. We just bought our way back in North Korea, and they just brought remains out of there ... In 2010, I think, we brought out 19 and in 2011 we brought out 22. There’s still people over there.” Sides concedes that there is little chance any vanished warriors from Korea or Vietnam are still Veterans salute during Taps after placing a plaque at the alive. But the Rolling Thunder Run to the Wall Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington. AP

MAY 2012 | THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE 43 grows each year, raising awareness about those during the 2011 run has been viewed more than whose fates remain unknown. 2.7 million times. In 1988, with a turnout of about 2,500 bikes, The event has now outlived many of those who Rolling Thunder was born. This year, the event is created it. In a sense, that was their mission: to expected to attract approximately 1 million people – create greater awareness of missing servicemembers bikers and spectators alike – for the annual for as long as they remain unaccounted for. procession from the Pentagon’s parking lot to the Sides, now 72, says he never really thought about Vietnam Veterans Memorial. how long the ride would last. “After about eight In recent years, the Run to the Wall has become (years), I knew that we weren’t going to quit, and something of a national sensation. Those we’ve been kind of hustling along ever since. It’s who cannot participate say they follow the been a great run – a really great run.” run online and in social media. A YouTube video of Marine Staff Sgt. Tim Chambers – known as “the Craig Roberts is a multimedia specialist for The lone Marine” – saluting Rolling Thunder riders American Legion.

American Legion Riders to posse up for Run to the Wall For the fi rst time in Rolling Thunder’s -year history, a large contingent of American Legion Riders will join the parade on Memorial Day. As many as  biking Legionnaires are expected to meet in the Washington area to join the annual Run to the Wall, starting at the Pentagon and proceeding to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Nick Nicholas, treasurer at Fairfax, Va., Post , says the idea came from a group of Treasure Island, Fla., Legion Riders at last year’s run. “They asked, ‘Why don’t we ride as a group?’” Nicholas says. “A lot of guys had thought of that, so we decided to try to make it happen.” Nicholas, a West Point graduate and civilian Pentagon worker, put together a -member committee to plan a rally. Brad Watkins, Post ’s fi rst vice commander, assisted in coordinating the planned Legion Riders ride-in. “John Sommer and Bob Spanogle really helped with the eff ort, too,” Nicholas says. “They gave terrifi c support.” American Legion photo Rolling Thunder has been close to Harley afi cionado Past National Commander Robert Spanogle and former Sommer’s heart since its founding. As a decorated Vietnam executive director John Sommer, above, encouraged the Legion War combat medic, he made the POW/MIA issue one of his to sponsor the 25th anniversary of Rolling Thunder. signature causes during his long tenure at the Legion. Sommer spent  years at the Legion’s D.C. headquarters, “The youngest riders today are riding alongside Vietnam starting as a claims representative and eventually serving as vets, and they love it. I don’t see a real generation gap. In my executive director. He has traveled to Vietnam, Cambodia experience, vets want to serve their fellow vets. They have a and Laos several times to promote the POW/MIA cause. cause bigger than themselves.” Spanogle, a past national commander and past national Several American Legion posts in the D.C. area will serve adjutant, is no stranger to Rolling Thunder and the Legion as meeting points for Legion Riders planning to join the Riders, either. His enthusiasm and encouragement played a herd, Nicholas says. His Fairfax post will host an open house big part in the Legion’s decision to be an offi cial sponsor of the day before the Rolling Thunder run, with patch sewing, the  run. bike detailing, maintenance and other vendors. Spanogle says he’s noticed an increase in younger riders “We’ll have a barbecue in the afternoon, and we’ve participating in veterans’ motorcycle rallies. designed a unique patch and pin to commemorate the “Vietnam veterans, who now make up most of our event, which we will be selling,” he says. membership and leadership, made up their minds that the Any money raised by the Legion Riders during Rolling new generation of soldiers, from the Persian Gulf on, would Thunder weekend will be donated to The American Legion not have happen to them what happened to us,” he says. Legacy Run in August.

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“When you all came back, I didn’t spit on you. But we did not recognize your heroism. We did not recognize the sacrifi ce. We did not recognize, as a nation, the price that you all paid. I have learned about that, and it has aff ected everything I do every

American Legion photos day in Congress.” The American Legion delivered to Congress and the Rep. Bob Filner, D-Calif., Vietnam War protester who White House a strong message of transition support for later became House Veterans Aff airs Committee veterans and troops coming home from war, during the chairman, after receiving the Legion’s Distinguished nd Washington Conference in February. Public Service Award for his eff orts to keep VA health Legionnaires poured into the nation’s capital to meet care and benefi ts well-funded with lawmakers, department offi cials and, in the case of National Commander Fang A. Wong, President Barack “I think The American Legion and the Obama in the Oval Offi ce, to share their concerns about Offi ce of Servicemember Aff airs have a lot caring for veterans in a time of serious fi scal strain. in common. We’re both focused on “Our nation’s military and veterans are facing a number of challenges, now and in the coming years,” Wong told increasing protections for servicemembers, Legionnaires. “It is your job to let your members of veterans and their families.” Congress know ... and fi ght for what is right for those Holly Petraeus, assistant director who have served this country.” for servicemember aff airs at the Legionnaires then took to Capitol Hill to discuss the Consumer Financial Protection issues. The conference also included a job fair, licensing Bureau (CFPB), speaking during and credentialing summit, business workshop, homeless the Commander’s Call on the veterans roundtable, commission meetings and role her offi ce plays in other events. educating active-duty personnel, veterans and Here are just some of the voices from this year’s their families on fi nancial Washington Conference. literacy and self-protection

“It’s important for us to “ There are lots of good fi nd solutions, and I think reasons for this, apart from we have some good ones the fact that the country coming ... with lots of owes a debt to these folks.” great help from you.” U.S. Department of Agriculture Allison Hickey, undersecretary for Secretary Tom Vilsack, after signing a benefi ts, Veterans Benefi ts memorandum of understanding Administration (VBA), speaking on between USDA and the Legion to kick eff orts to reduce VA’s backlog of off a nationwide veteran-hiring undecided benefi ts claims campaign

48 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE | MAY 2012 “Eliminating this problem “Most women veterans had “The president said in his State of takes a collaborative eff ort, no idea they had as much the Union address that there were mostly at the local level.” right to the VA health-care  million jobs in America that Pete Dougherty, VA representative, system as the men did.” needed to be fi lled, and couldn’t be speaking at a Homeless Veterans Dr. Omega Silva, professor emeritus fi lled because we lacked a trained Workshop, where government of medicine at George Washington work force. The president just gave offi cials discussed eff orts to reduce University, speaking at a panel and ultimately eliminate us the perfect platform to make discussion about rural health care for veterans, Guard and reservists, homelessness among veterans, and female veterans at VA medical the Legion explained how centers military spouses and active-duty departments and posts are working transitioning servicemembers ... “Congress has skin in the to achieve the same goal the core of the supply for those game ... and by extension, “We just try to make America has skin in the  million jobs.” things better.” Kevin Schmiegel, executive director of the game.” U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Hiring Our Walter V. Finley, Navy veteran and Heroes program, during a two-day National Legionnaire, Lt. Col. Joseph Gallagher, U.S. who donated more than Credentialing Summit, where representatives , hours of his time in just over a Marine Corps, in a presentation to a joint session of the National Security from the U.S. government, the military, private year to help veteran patients in the industry and nonprofi ts met to analyze the New York Harbor VA Healthcare and Foreign Relations commissions about the disjointed condition of issue of licensing and credentialing in the System, after he was honored as the private sector and what can be done to help VAVS Worker of the Year war-making powers between the executive and legislative branches veterans use their military experience to qualify “There’s one very simple “Our America deserves a reason why you’re doing little fact with its fi ction “A lot of veterans come to this: you love this country when it comes to motion school, and they don’t want to with all your heart, and you be known. They don’t want to recognize that if you’re not pictures and television.” come into a room and doing it, no one else will.” Dale Dye, retired Marine Corps captain and top military adviser for announce themselves as being Rep. Tim Walz, DFL-Minn., on the such movies as “Saving Private someone with a diverse, Legion’s eff orts to ensure adequate Ryan” and “Platoon,” after receiving VA funding, which led to a  the National Commander’s professional background – budget request of $. billion, up Public Relations Award combat deployments, what . percent from  have you. ” T.M. Gibbons-Neff , Georgetown University VA and DoD are engaged in fi ve studies to look at student veteran, at The American Legion “ Education Symposium, hyperbaric oxygen, specifi cally as it relates to PTSD. where student veterans (With) acute traumatic brain injury, there is some and academic authorities evidence hyperbaric oxygen works. examined issues facing veterans on campus and There isn’t any good evidence right assessed how well the now for chronic TBI.” academic community is responding to Dr. Robert Petzel, undersecretary for health, Veterans Health Administration ensure their (VHA), on his agency’s progress in success alternative methods for treating For full coverage, visit the Legion website post-traumatic stress and traumatic and click on “More Headlines.” brain injury www.legion.org

MAY 2012 | THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE 49 [VERBATIM][MILITARY AFFAIRS] “I prayed to have the A stronger military alliance strength to survive, In a sign of their deepening cooperation, the United States and the that I want these kids to Philippines are hammering out a range of new security-related agreements thatthat willwil grant the United States military access to bases, ports and have a mom, and I did not airfi eeldsl in the Philippines. want them to grow up “It“It’s’ access, not bases,” one Philippine offi cial told Reuters. A similar without me. momodel has been applied to U.S.-Australian military cooperation. ” The United States and the Philippines are also developing Stephanie Decker, whose legs were plans for resupply and refueling for U.S. assets, as well as for crushed while shielding her children joint training and exercises. With an eye on China, Manila is from a tornado that destroyed their increasingly open to cooperation with Washington, and has Marysville, Ind., home March  sought U.S. military equipment in recent years, including cutters for the Philippine navy. “I will never let my GeoGeo AtlAtlasas people live in the shadow [HISTORHISTORYY] of annihilation.” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Tyler’s long lineage Netanyahu, speaking to the American John Tyler was president of the United States from  to , serving as Israel Public Aff airs Committee, on the the nation’s th chief executive after the death of William Henry Harrison. need to stop Iran’s nuclear program That’s not particularly newsworthy. What is newsworthy – and surprising – is that President Tyler’s grandchildren are still alive. “Iran is not telling Lyon Tyler Jr., born in , and Harrison Tyler, born in , are two sons of us everything.” Lyon Tyler, one of President Tyler’s  children. As Fox News reports, the elder Yukiya Amano, director general of the Lyon was born when President Tyler was , and he had his sons when he International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), was in his s – explaining how John Tyler’s grandchildren are still with us on the likelihood that Iran is not disclosing  years after he left offi ce. all its nuclear facilities to U.N. inspectors [CAPITOL HILL ] “This is a Cadillac product, and that’s why you Time for a cut have a premium on it. The U.S. Senate barbershop ran a nearly $, defi cit last year. ” It was so bad that the Senate’s favorite spot for a trim was actually Brad Paulsen, merchant for the light-bulb bailed out by “an infusion from Senate coff ers that is keeping it in category at Home Depot, on Philips’ business,” The Daily reports. new $ LED bulb. The company won the When informed of the news, many senators were stunned. When U.S. government’s $ million “L Prize” for developing a green but aff ordable bulb Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Md., heard that the barbershop had a made at least partially in the United States. shortfall, he replied, “It did? It shouldn’t. It should pay for itself.” Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., was surprised because the barbershop’s A veteran is someone prices are relatively high. A regular haircut costs $ at the Senate “ barbershop, almost double what Leahy pays his barber back in who wrote a blank check, Vermont. “I give him $ with a tip,” he said.

payable to the United States Sen. Peter Fitzgerald, R-Ill., said the problem stems from the Media Bakery fact that the barbershop’s employees, who are federal workers, of America,, for an amount are overpaid. uupp to and “To support his argument,” The Daily reports, “Fitzgerald iincludingn his contrasts the salaries and benefi ts of the Senate’s stylists to what is off ered by Capitol Barber, three blocks away. Capitol’s four barbers oown life.” and stylists made $, to $, last year with no benefi ts … At GeneG Castagnetti, the Senate barbershop, formally called Senate Hair Care Services, the top director of the four barbers and stylists made more than twice that – $,, $,, National Memorial $, and $, – plus they have a generous (k) plan, health care and Cemetery of the paid vacation. In all, the government contributed $, in benefi ts for the Pacifi c in Hawaii, barbershop.” U.S. Air Force reretired Marine Corps colonellld and Vietnam War veteran Sources: FOX 59, BBC, Reuters, The Washington Post Editor’s note: April’s Rapid Fire section listed the th National Convention’s Exhibit Hall as being located in Halls E and F. It will be in Halls C and F.

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William E. Galbraith’s early interest wrote that those wanting to abandon in The American Legion wasn’t for the war eff orts there hadn’t had a much more than a place to play chance to visit the country. pinochle. That changed in  when “On all sides I was surprised to see his wife, Gwen, became president of a nation with an enormous future,” American Legion Auxiliary Unit  in he wrote in The American Legion Beemer, Neb., the same post he’d Magazine. “(It’s) a rich land, ripe for joined that year. development, inhabited by a people Gwen attended Nebraska’s with the native talent to develop it.” Auxiliary convention and told He said the future needed to be Galbraith that if he’d get more considered, not just the present. involved in the Legion, he’d fi nd it to As  was an election year, be an important organization doing Galbraith warned against using important things. Vietnam for political gains, especially Galbraith took his wife’s advice, when it came to discussing and became post commander in . negotiations to end the war. “The A decade later, he began moving up negotiations are no game for in the organization’s ranks. He served amateurs,” he wrote. as Department of Nebraska Looking past his own term, Galbraith commander from  to , created The American Legion Task Nebraska’s National Executive American Legion photo Force for the Future. Its mission, he Committeeman from  to , a After his service, Galbraith attended said, was to examine the posture of the national vice commander from  to the University of Nebraska on the GI United States in several critical areas, , and national commander from Bill, graduating in just three years with and to examine the programs and  to . He passed away a bachelor’s degree in agricultural goals of the Legion to determine their March  at . extension. He went on to teach school fi t with current U.S. life and come up “He was a dedicated Legionnaire for several years before becoming the with new ways to contribute, in order who always put the Legion up front owner and operator of a -acre cattle to provide the Legion with a strategy and above everything else,” said Past and pork farm in Nebraska. for the future. National Commander Michael J. During his tenure as post Membership in the organization Kogutek, who knew Galbraith for commander, Galbraith led a program increased by more than , during more than  years. “He was truly that established a $, Legion- Galbraith’s term. As one of his fi nal interested in The American Legion owned medical clinic; the town had acts as national commander, he and in our veterans. been without a doctor for  years. presented Secretary of the Army “On a personal note, he was a man Nine years later, Galbraith was Stanley Resor with $,, a down of integrity. He always spoke from the elected department commander. payment on the Legion’s gift to the heart and was very sincere. I’m going Nebraska’s governor named him nation: a permanent lighting system to miss him, and I know the co-chairman of a three-year series of for the Tomb of the Unknowns at organization is going to miss him.” state regional conferences on Arlington National Cemetery. In Past National Commander Clarence education. He also served on the addition, a trust was established to Bacon met Galbraith in the early s. state’s Centennial Celebration cover the cost of future maintenance “On a personal level, he was a real Commission, which served him well to the lighting system. gentleman,” Bacon said. “He was when he began helping plan the Galbraith belonged to numerous always very concerned and caring Legion’s th anniversary in . other veterans service and civic toward veterans, and he was willing “I was very impressed with his organizations and was selected for to do all kinds of jobs to help them at background,” said Department of New several appointments through the both the state and national level.” York Adjutant Dick Pedro, who fi rst met U.S. Department of Agriculture. Born in , Galbraith tried to enter Galbraith when he was campaigning “He really worked long and hard for the military at , but his father for national commander in New York. The American Legion and for the wouldn’t sign the papers. He joined “He came up very fast within the ranks farmers back in his home state,” Bacon when he turned  and served as a of The American Legion.” said. “If you’re looking for an individual radarman with the Navy Armed Guard. Galbraith was elected national who was dedicated for his entire life to While he was stationed mostly in the commander Aug. , , at . During veterans, that man was Bill Galbraith.” United States, he did make one trip his tenure, he had a chance to visit Galbraith is survived by wife Gwen, across the Atlantic to La Havre, France. South Vietnam. Upon his return, he daughter Claudia and son Billy.

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Commander’s Public A: If you are a spouse, you Relations Award at the can begin using the Washington Conference in transferred benefi ts after the February, he took time to transferor completes six discuss his career with years of service. American Legion VETERANS & EDUCATION BY VALERIE HEFFNER If you are a child at least  Communications Director years old (or you have American Legion photo John Raughter. completed your secondary school requirements), Why did you go into the fi lm business? you can begin using the transferred benefi ts after I decided that I was tired of seeing the depiction of the American the transferor completes  years of service. military and the American veteran in movies and television that You remain eligible to use transferred benefi ts was just not what I knew from my own experience. I said, “This is until the earliest of the following dates: unfair.” It upset my sense of decorum. So I took off for Hollywood For a spouse and said, “All right, I have a mission, and that’s to fi x this and to ̇ The transferor’s ending date of eligibility unscrew it and change the way things are made. And so I’m going (generally  years from the transferor’s last to do it.” discharge from active duty) How receptive was Hollywood at fi rst? The ending date specifi ed by the transferor ̇ Not at all. I was escorted off many movie lots by the security folks. (if one was specifi ed) Fortunately, most of them were former military, so I didn’t get The eff ective date the transferor revokes the ̇ arrested and booked. The big problem was convincing them that I transferred entitlement had a better idea, a better mousetrap. ̇ Fifteen years after the transferor’s date of death (if the transferor dies while on active duty) What’s your biggest challenge today in the fi lm industry? For a child My biggest challenge is really in the performance of the actors. ̇ Your th birthday What’s diffi cult is making young actors, who have absolutely no ̇ The ending date specifi ed by the transferor military experience at all – and not only actors but writers, (if one was specifi ed) directors, producers – they have no contact with the military ... ̇ The eff ective date the transferor revokes the There’s just a huge gap between those who served and those who transferred entitlement haven’t. So the challenge is taking those folks and teaching them Keep in mind that the transferor retains the right that what we really do and who we really are is much more to revoke or modify the transfer at any time. interesting, much more dramatic and much more impactful than what they dream up. Valerie Heff ner, a Marine Corps veteran and member of American Legion Post  in Arizona, is a past vice Is there one project where you said, “That’s it! That’s the president of the National Association of Veterans’ message we are trying to portray”? Program Administrators. [email protected] I think “Band of Brothers” did it. It will live long after me or any of the actors or anything else, because it really portrays the relationship between soldiers in extremis – soldiers who are facing [MEMBERSHIP] life and death every day. We captured that. And that’s what makes NEW POSTS it magic. American Legion Post , Loveland, Colo. What’s next for you? Chartered Feb.  ( members) Two things. I’ve written and am about to direct a fi lm called “No Better Place to Die,” which is about the nd Airborne at La Fière All American Post , New Orleans on D-Day. So it covers D-Day and D-plus-. And then I’m about to Chartered Feb.  ( members) do  episodes like “Band of Brothers” but on Korea. It’s called “The American Legion Post , Livingston, Texas Forgotten War.” I’ve also authored a book series called the File Chartered Feb.  ( members) Series. It begins with “Laos File.” Then it goes to “Peleliu File,” and American Legion Post , Rogue River, Ore. this summer we will be releasing “Chosin File.” Chartered Feb.  ( members) Gen. James A. Van Fleet and Capt. James A. Van Watch Dye’s acceptance speech,p and read an expanded Fleet II Post , Polk City, Fla. Chartered Feb.  version of this interview: www.legion.org/magazine ( members)

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HearPO, one of the largest providers of hearing “We aim to make it as easy and aff ordable as possible for health-care programs in the United States, has signed an them to access high-quality, potentially life-changing agreement with The American Legion and Sons of The hearing health care,” she said. American Legion. Legionnaires and Greg Roth, the Legion’s director of Sons, as well as their immediate family membership support services, said he members, can obtain discounted believes the HearPO program will be hearing-care services and hearing aids, welcomed by Legionnaires. along with other benefi ts provided by “Damage to hearing has been a more than , HearPO-credentialed battlefi eld risk ever since the invention clinics across the country. of explosives and artillery,” he said. “We are proud to off er HearPO “And it’s not just older members who benefi ts to nearly  million veterans of are suff ering. We’re seeing signifi cant our nation’s armed forces and their hearing loss in servicemembers family members,” said Michele Fusco, returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, senior vice president of medical often due to roadside bombings and business operations. “Legionnaires fi refi ghts. The American Legion is have given so much to our country, committed to fi nding relief and they continue to do wonderful for members of all ages, and HearPO work in the communities where they will play a signifi cant role in helping live. It is a great honor for HearPO to be us make it happen.” a preferred provider for such a highly Some restrictions and exclusions regarded organization on behalf of its members.” apply. The program, and the products and services off ered, Many military veterans struggle with hearing loss as a are not available by direct mail in the state of Washington. result of exposure to noise and other factors, Fusco noted. www.hearpo.com/legion

[LEGION BASEBALL] [PUBLIC RELATIONS] World Series acts announced New PR toolkit now available Award-winning country music duo Montgomery Gentry The American Legion will kick off The American Legion World Series in Shelby, Public Relations Toolkit – N.C., with a live performance Aug. . As strong supporters an interactive, convenient of the military, they entertained troops in Iraq multiple and current resource with times, and recorded “What It Takes” for the soundtrack to the latest communications the recent action fi lm “Act of Valor.” tools – is now available. On Aug. , the contemporary Christian band MercyMe A wealth of background, will make a special tour stop in Shelby to honor U.S. information and guidance servicemembers and veterans. In , the Grammy- is available on all aspects off nominated group released the song “Finally Home,” which a Legion post’s PR eff ort. struck a chord with military families. The band has since The print publication become an active supporter of the U.S. military. MercyMe includes a DVD that is traveling nearly  miles to Shelby after performing the contains both an interactive PDF version of the toolkit and night before in South Bend, Ind. resource fi les. The entire toolkit is also available for Both concerts will be at the Cleveland County download on the Legion’s website, and the online version Fairgrounds. Go online for ticket prices and other purchase – especially the text annexes, with their customizable information. samples and other resources – will be frequently updated so Legionnaires can stay up to date on PR developments www.legion.org/baseball and Legion programs and priorities. There is even an annex dedicated to USAA media products. www.americanlegionworldseries.com Both forms of the toolkit – print and online – are free. To order the print version, contact the Public Relations Division at () - or email [email protected].

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Send notices Other notices on official forms, which may be obtained by to The American Legion Magazine, Attn: “In Search Of” is a means of getting in touch sending a self-addressed stamped envelope Reunions, P.O. Box 1055, Indianapolis, IN with people from your unit to plan a reunion. to The American Legion Magazine, Attn: Life 46206, fax (317) 630-1280, e-mail reunions@ We do not publish listings that seek people Memberships, P.O. Box 1055, Indianapolis, legion.org or submit information via our for interviews, research purposes, military IN 46206. website, www.legion.org/reunions. photos or help in filing a VA claim. Listings “Comrades in Distress” listings must be Include the branch of service and complete must include the name of the unit from which approved by the Legion’s Veterans Affairs & name of the group, no abbreviations, with your you seek people, the time period and the Rehabilitation division. If you are seeking to verify request. 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